Journal 12

Throughout this semester, I have been exposed to many different writing styles, techniques, and voices. For this experience I have to thank workshopping in our classes. I found it very interesting, if not useful to see other people's approaches to the writing assignments we were given for our papers. One of the biggest things I have honestly learned from taking this course is to not wait until the last minute to do an assignment, especially when it's a research paper. My writing style has not changed so much per say as it has rather been made more aware of my tendency to ramble on sometimes on diatribes that are tangential at best. I usually have a pretty good voice, but I need to incorporate my new writing tools such as setting up different sentence formats instead of the same old noun, then verb structure. One thing I learned to capitalize on is my ability to seem very eloquent, expressive, and insightful. This is one of my strongest writing points. I learned much about communities, and got some fascinating insight into how certain communities live out their lives. I, however have not had my opinion or attitude changed towards said communities as I have always had an open mind about things or people that are different from what I considered normal.